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Sustainable Waste Management Planning through Life Cycle

Approach

LCA-IWM Project within EU 5th Action ProgrammeKey-action

“The City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage”

Emilia den Boer

Institut WAR, Technische Universität Darmstadt

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Project objestives

2. Assessment model

Credits: Energy Compost Secondary materials

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Waste pre-treatment & treatment

• Composting

• Digestion

• Mech.-Biol.

Pre-treatment

• Incineration

• Recycling:

(paper, glass,

metals, plastics,

WEEE)

Environ-mental

Economic

Social

1. Prognostic model

• hazardous waste

• residual & bulky waste

• WEEE

• bio-waste

• plastics and comp.

• metals

• glass

• paper & cardboard

Waste quantity & composition

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CO2SO2NOx

PbPCDD/F

Global Warming Potential

Acidification

Human toxicity, ect.

Impact categories

Inventory Impact assessment Aggregation

Environmental criteria selection – LCIA

Methods:CMLUBA

Results

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Criterion / Indicator Type

Abiotic depletion LCA-based (CML)

Climate change LCA-based (CML)

Human toxicity LCA-based (CML)

Photo-oxidant formation LCA-based (CML)

Acidification LCA-based (CML)

Eutrophication LCA-based (CML)

Reduction of biodegradable waste landfilling

EU Waste policy

Recycling and recovery rates of packaging EU Waste policy

Screening/Streamlining LCA

RelevanceComparability

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Results of selection of social sustainability criteria

Social acceptability: 

1.- ODOUR 2.-VISUAL IMPACT

3.- COMFORT 4.- URBAN SPACE

5.- PRIVATE SPACE CONS. 6.- NOISE

7.- COMPLEXITY 8.- TRAFFIC

9.- RISK PERCEPTION

 Costume and traditions, cleanliness

Social equity:

10.- DISTRIBUTION AND LOCATION OF CONTAINERS

11.- EMPLOYMENT QUALITY

Distribution of benefits and burdens

Social function:

12.- FINAL DESTINATION

13.- DIRECT EMPLOYMENT CREATION

Minimisation, fuel quality, management capability,

public awareness

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Next step: Case studies (e.g. Wrocław)

Organics; 42%

Glass; 10%

Paper and cardboard; 21%

Metals; 4%

Plastics; 10%

Other fractions; 13%

Wastequantity & composition

Input data

Landfill

Scenario 1

Cement kiln

Landfill

Energy

Incineration

Energy

Landfill

Mech.-Biol. Pre-treatment

Mech.-Biol. PretreatmentComposting

Compost

Mech.-Biol. Pretreatment

Composting

Incineration

LandfillCompost

Energy

Recycling

Materials

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Scenario 4